Colozza

Hello to everyone at the tech support forums! I come to you with a grand query about my laptop. Recently I was enjoying a game of Team Fortress 2 on this computer, however about 15 minutes into playing my whole screen immediately turned an ugly pink color with my mouse turning into a nasty white pixel floating around the screen and eventually freezing with ingame sound constantly repeating as though it were frozen. From there I could do nothing but power off my system with the power button. Upon rebooting I was able to access IE for about 5 minutes until the same screen started appearing. Long story short, I tried to boot 2-3 more times with the same results. I have discovered that the computer can run fine without any drivers installed, however this is a large problem for me as I am an avid gamer. Once I try to re-install any type of driver (I've tried 3 already) the computer either can't boot up, or a multitude of dots appear all over the screen with the pink screen of death instantly following. If anyone knows what kind of situation I'm in I would love to hear about it, it is a very odd conundrum for me, but if anyone could confirm that it might be a graphics card failure or something along those lines that would be great... or not so great for me Anyway, sorry for the long first post and thank you for replies!

TriggerFinger

hi Colozza,

try it with an external monitor if you have the same symptoms. also try loading the drivers while on external monitor and observe if behaves the same. also check this out if applicable to your system...

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